The Revolution of 2024

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 12:57:34 | Updated at 2024-11-23 18:31:08 6 days ago

The Revolution of 2024
Brownstone Institute ^ | 16 Nov, 2024 | Jeffrey A. Tucker

Posted on 11/17/2024 3:58:07 AM PST by MtnClimber

People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election, the results of which defied every prediction. Who doesn’t like to see the smug elites who have ruled the world for five awful years taken down a peg?

More than that, there are hints of a return to sanity. Mainstream advertisers are suddenly returning to X, putting their economic interest above their tribalist loyalties. The editor of pro-lockdowns Scientific American, which had long blessed totalitarian measures as true science, has resigned.

The attempt to pillage InfoWars and give it to The Onion has been reversed by a federal judge. That might be a fluke or might not be: maybe the lawfare is dialing back too. The cabinet of the incoming administration is being filled by voices that were fully censored for years. Employees are reportedly packing their bags at the FDA and other agencies.

Mainstream news commentators are sputtering around with less bravado than they have shown in years. CNN is firing major personalities.

Trump is talking about abolishing the income tax and granting $10K in tax credits per homeschooled child, not to mention blowing up college accreditation systems, among other sweeping changes.

The American Bastille day is coming, not only freeing the political prisoners of January 6 but also many of the unjustly persecuted including Ross Ulbricht, Roger Ver, and Ian Freeman, among so many others. That will be a day of rejoicing.

Oh, and peace seems to have broken out in some contentious areas of the world, for now.

What is happening? This is not the usual transfer of the resident of the White House. This is starting to look like an actual transfer of power, not just from Biden to Trump but from the permanent government – ensconced in many sectors – that has been long in hiding to an entirely new form of government responsive to actual voters.

As it turns out, there was no late surge for Kamala Harris. All the polls were wrong, and the rest was media blather. What was correct were the betting odds on Polymarket, and only days later, the FBI raided the 26-year-old founder’s home and confiscated his phone and laptop.

There are still many millions of missing voters, people who supposedly showed up for Biden in 2020 but stayed home this time. Meanwhile, there has been a historic shift in all races, ethnicities, and regions, with even the possibility of flipping California from blue to red in the future.

After decades of academic slicing and dicing of the population according to ever more eccentric identity buckets involving race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual interest, along with countless thousands of studies documenting deep complexity over intersectionality, the driving force of the election was simple: class, and the few intellectuals and some wealthy entrepreneurs who understand that.

The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent, people with actual skills vs weaponized resume wielders, and those with affection for old-world values vs those whose educations have beaten it out of them for purposes of career advancement.

The silent majority has never been so suddenly loud. It just so happened that the heavily privileged had come to inhabit easily identifiable sectors of American society and, in the end, had no choice but hitch the whole of the overclass wagon to the fortunes of a candidate like themselves (Kamala) but who was unable to pull off a compelling masquerade. Not even a parade of well-paid celebrity endorsements could save her from total rebuke at the polls.

Sylvester Stallone called Trump a second George Washington but another reference point might be Andrew Jackson. The overwhelming victory for Trump is on a scale not seen since 1828 when, four years after the presidency was stolen from Jackson, Old Hickory came back in a wild landslide and cleaned up Washington. Trump arrives in Washington with a mandate for the same, with 81% of the public demanding that the government shrink in size and power.

It has all happened so quickly. We are barely ten days into the realization of what just transpired and the entire lay of the land seems different, like a tectonic shift in politics, culture, mood, and possibilities. We are even seeing blunt and open talk about the horrendous Covid response that so utterly demoralized the country and the world, after years of silence on the topic. We have promised hearings coming, and court cases galore now on fast track.

The sudden coming together of three great sectors of anti-establishment fury – MAGA, MAHA, and DOGE – in the last two months of the election of 2024 is one for the ages. It provides the beginnings of an answer to the great question on our minds for decades: how precisely does an authentic revolution take root in an industrialized Western democracy? Are elections capable of delivering real results?

For now, the answer seems to be yes. That should thrill any responsible observer of social, cultural, economic, and political affairs. It means that the early architects of the American system were not wrong. The intolerable costs of political upheaval of ages past can be mitigated by planting power firmly in the hands of the people through the plebiscite. This was their view and their gamble. All the evidence of our time points to the wisdom of the idea.

In the darkest days of the last year of the first Trump presidency, the bureaucracy was riding high, in full revenge mode against an elected government it hated and sought to overthrow. The agencies were passing strange edicts that felt like laws but no one knew for sure. You are essential, you are not. You must stay home, unless you have an emergency. Your elective surgery needs to wait. The kids cannot go to school. That European vacation cannot happen. You can eat at a restaurant but only if you are six feet away from other patrons and you must put this China-made cloth on your mouth if you get up to go to the restroom.

The flurry of edicts was mind-boggling. It felt like martial law, because it was some form of exactly that. The best research points to the astonishing reality that this was never really a public-health response but a scheme by security and intelligence sectors to enact some kind of global color revolution, which is why the policies were so similar the world over. It was indeed an awesome display of power, one that invaded all our communities, homes, and families.....SNIP

TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: conservatism

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1 posted on 11/17/2024 3:58:07 AM PST by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

I have no doubt that the deep state blob will still go after President Trump and his supporters.

2 posted on 11/17/2024 3:58:19 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

Other than 4 World Series games won by the Rangers in 2023 I’d not had a good day since November 4, 2020 until this election.

3 posted on 11/17/2024 4:03:23 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and pervewrts.)

To: MtnClimber

Once again there is a light at the end of the tunnel. :)

4 posted on 11/17/2024 4:06:31 AM PST by Openurmind

To: MtnClimber

Members of the deep state are unelected and can be fired on day 1 of 47s administration. He would be a fool to believe that they won’t pull the same old stunts.........

5 posted on 11/17/2024 4:08:34 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)

To: MtnClimber

I have no doubt that the deep state blob will still go after President Trump and his supporters.

Like in his first term, the US deep state will be Trump's greatest enemy. But it feels like they're losing now, on the defensive, shredding documents as we speak.

To: MtnClimber

The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent

It was going along then he says this stupid thing. Stopped reading....

7 posted on 11/17/2024 4:13:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)

To: Right_Wing_Madman

I’m hoping they’re dumb enough to use the same tactics as before because rest assured, Trump has anticipated this. He’ll come at them very differently because he’s learned from his first term.

8 posted on 11/17/2024 4:17:27 AM PST by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)

To: MtnClimber

Lefties love to talk about karma, but they sure hate being on the receiving end.

9 posted on 11/17/2024 4:37:39 AM PST by Rockingham

To: sgt_lau

I’m hoping they’re dumb enough to use the same tactics as before because rest assured, Trump has anticipated this.

Early indicators are they have recycled the Kavanaugh strategy. And while it delays and annoys, it's not effective unless you can get a conviction. It didn't work against Kavanaugh.

I think the greatest danger to Trump is another assassination attempt. They've already tried at least once. I don't know what security arrangements Trump has made, but I hope he's not relying solely on Secret Service.

Early Roman emperors like Augustus and Claudius employed German bodyguards, mainly to protect them from the Praetorian Guard, their own official protection. The German guards were foreigners and mercenaries and had little incentive to be disloyal.

To: MtnClimber

And yet, even though no one has yet been open about precisely what happened in the White House in March 2020 to cause Trump to greenlight the lockdowns, there is a widespread belief that it was never really his choice. It was some kind of coup – egged on even by his closest advisors and the VP – that he either could not stop or lacked the personnel to marshal effective resistance.

Both the former VP and scarf lady (Birx) have personally admitted this in his book and in interviews Birx has since given. And Fauci just continued his demonic jihad.

This is an important article which accurately assembles historical events and provides honestly sobering context. This is why I believe it is critical to confirm Trump's cabinet picks. We have a once in a generational moment in history to reaffirm and correct the tree of liberty.

11 posted on 11/17/2024 4:50:38 AM PST by Obadiah

To: Obadiah

There were no mandatory federal lock downs. Lock downs were at the state level.

12 posted on 11/17/2024 4:51:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)

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